Building Digital & Finance Assets for Passive Income

If you are looking for a Drupal 11 starter theme that is lightweight, highly configurable, and respects the principles of clean code, Solo is my top recommendation. It provides a high-performance foundation that already outperforms the official sites of many major CMS platforms. More importantly, it provides a stable and professional bridge that allows you to get your content live today, giving you the time to build out your custom, hand-crafted optimizations in the background.

In my last post, I explained why I decided to roll back from Drupal CMS 2.0 to Drupal Core. While Drupal CMS 2.0 is a fantastic "move-in ready" product, I realized that for my own websites, I prefer the additive development approach. I want to lay every brick myself to avoid the "div soup" and module overhead.

Today, I'm uninstalling Drupal CMS 2.0 and setting up a fresh instance of Drupal Core 11.3.8.

In my previous post, I walked through the installation of Drupal CMS 2.0. On the surface, the promise of a "move-in ready" Drupal was incredibly appealing. It looks modern, feels more accessible, and finally positions Drupal as a true "product" rather than just a developer's framework. However, after spending some quality time with the user interface and exploring the pre-configured templates, I realized that Drupal CMS 2.0 isn't for Me. I’ve decided to make a U-turn and return to Drupal Core 11.

As an open-source enthusiast, I have been using Drupal to build websites for over a decade, starting with Drupal 7. I have always viewed Drupal (now Drupal Core) as a bare-shell apartment: the structural foundation is rock-solid, but you have to install every wire, pipe, and tile yourself before it’s livable.

But as I started planning my new blog daweibro.com — a space where I'll be exploring the intersection of digital assets and financial independence — I realized that time is my most valuable asset. Instead of the old manual way, I decided to embrace a new path: Drupal CMS.

Why SOLO is My First Choice as a Drupal Starter Theme (And Why You Should Try It)

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Back to Basics: Rolling from Drupal CMS 2.0 back to Drupal Core 11

Install Drupal CMS 2.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 with Apache2 PHP8.3 PostgreSQL 16